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Apparatus and method for designing a form structure using column and row rules

US5379372A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateSep 13, 1990
Grant dateJan 3, 1995
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Expiry dateSep 13, 2010

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06T11/206
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A method and an apparatus for designing generalized tables. The method and the apparatus are described by a collection of processes for performing operations such as creating a generalized table, deleting a generalized table, drawing a rule, stretching or shrinking a rule, shifting a set of rules, deleting a rule, aligning a rule, unaligning a rule, combining cells, dividing a cell, creating a region, and deleting a region.

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